The Raising Lifelong Learners podcast helps parents — especially homeschooling parents — encourage their differently-wired kids to learn, explore passions, cultivate creativity, and become fascinated by the world around them. Join host Colleen Kessler — educational consultant, gifted specialist, author, and speaker — for interviews, audioblogs, tips, and encouragement to help your differently-wired kiddos become lifelong learners — children who know that they can find the answers to anything they want to know if they can just view their world with play, passion, and fascination.
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RLL 09 Pam Barnhill: Better Together
Strengthening your family, simplifying your homeschool, and savoring the subjects that matter most is a piece of cake when you take a moment to soak in the wisdom of today’s guest, my friend Pam Barnhill. She has a knack for putting things into perspective and easing the tension homeschool mamas feel when faced with […]
RLL 08 Melissa: Following Their Joy
Raising creative, loving, and inquisitive kids is a goal of mine, and so many other parents out there — homeschooling, afterschooling, traditionally schooling, and everything in between. Today I’m talking to Melissa, a friend from the interwebs, about herself, her beautifully-wired family, and following the joy in life. I hope you’ll join us and […]
RLL 07 Alicia Hutchinson: Homeschooling and Learning Well
Simple ideas + Easy routines = Homeschooling with confidence… That’s the philosophy behind the beautiful community that is Learning Well with Alicia Hutchinson. In this episode, Alicia and I talk about the beauty of an ever-evolving homeschool life and that all homeschools should look different from one another. The beauty of homeschooling is in […]
RLL 06 S.D. Smith: Cultivating Creativity Through New Stories with an Old Soul
Author of the fantastically popular series The Green Ember, S. D. Smith is here today to talk about honesty in storytelling, how igniting your own learning helps keep your tank filled as you homeschool and ecourage creativity and learning in your kiddos, and what it means to creatively engage thousands of readers around the world […]
RLL 05 Aurie Good: Roadtripping and Following the Child
Homeschooling foster and adoptive mama, Aurie Good, is here today to talk with us about all the ways she follows her kiddos’ lead and balances the structure of a program like Classical Conversations with a more free-flowing, child-led approach to learning. We’ll also talk about how she’s taking homeschool on the road for an […]
RLL 04 Amy Milcic: Keeping Things Fun While On-the-Go
Keeping up with homeschooling, parenting, and all that goes into keeping a family going is tough enough when you’re home all the time. For Amy Milcic and her crew, they’re (more often than not) out and on the go at tournaments and other travel sports events. In this episode, we’ll chat about how she […]